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feat: no Plural inside Trans#110

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@sjgeyer sjgeyer commented Oct 9, 2025

Rule to disallow nesting Plural components inside Trans components for improved localization.

Good:

<Plural value={count} one="You have # unread message" other="You have # unread messages" />

Bad:

<Trans>You have <Plural value={count} one="# unread message" other="# unread messages" /></Trans>

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@sjgeyer looks good to me, thank you for the contribution!

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Why you consider this bad? In my opinion the opposite is bad, nesting Plural inside Trans creates a perfectly fine ICU message without duplication:

You have {plural, count, one {# unread message} other {# unread messages}}

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sjgeyer commented Oct 15, 2025

it's less about the creation of the message than the quality of the translation. i've found that we get better and more reliable translations when the Plural includes the full sentence (or as much of the sentence as possible) vs. concatenating sentences inside a Trans

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@sjgeyer could you add more details to the doc for that rule, like where to use tis rule and where not.

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Reminder: after releasing this, it would be great to mention this rule in the po-gettext formatter docs - https://lingui.dev/ref/catalog-formats#po-gettext

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Hi @sjgeyer, could you please address the comment above so that we can proceed with this PR? Thanks!

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sjgeyer commented Mar 9, 2026

@andrii-bodnar addressed! let me know if there needs to be any more clarification

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